I had looked through the other emails and saw that someone else had a
problem with KDE (subject of email [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE)
. I followed the advice presented there which was to edit the /etc/profile
file and remove .kde/ folder, and run ldconfig. But I tried ldconfig again
still nothing.
I get a splash screen for KDE 3.1 and it has 7 icons underneath it. It loads
upto the second icon which is a wrench and it says initializing system
services that's when it hangs and goes to a blue screen. doing some
research I think it may be a hardware problem.
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bobby Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:20, Bobby Patel wrote:
I did a fresh install of 9.1, and then I get prompted for a
username/password and sesison type I would like to use.
The sesison type choices are KDE, GNome, IceWm, failsafe, and defualt.
The
only things that work are failsafe and IceWm. When I try to login with
KDE
or Gnome, the cursor turns to a busy cursor and the background is the
splash
screen and I can hear the hardrive reading and writing, but this goes on
for
more than my patience (which is 20 mins).
I went through IceWm and through the system configure tools and
installed
all packages under the Graphical Environment (KDE, GNOME) (45 MB in all)
.
But still the same problem.
Any ideas? I'm totally new to installing linux, so I'm totally lost.
Since this is a fresh install, I'm assuming you've set the system to
login via graphical mode instead of console mode - so you might want to
do a CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a console login prompt - once you get there
and login as root, type: ldconfigat the prompt, then type: reboot
and after the system happily reboots/resets, try to login again. If you
can't get past that, then we'll attack another method...unless someone
wants to add their two cents...(or pence, or pfenning or whatever)
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